Installation problem

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh at rakhesh.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, illoai at gmail.com wrote:
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> > On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh at rakhesh.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard
> >>> disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for
> >>> FreeBSD. My problem comes once I "commit" to the installation of
> >>> FreeBSD. I get the following message, after which installation aborts:
> >>> "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s2b in /dev! The creation of
> >>> filesystems will be aborted." What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >> Are you trying to install FreeBSD in an extended partition? The
> >> /dev/ad*4*s2b makes me think so ...
> >
> > /dev/ad4 is probably his first SATA drive, the integer
> > following "s" is the slice number (partition in the magical
> > windows world) and if greater than 4 indicates an extended
> > slice.
>
> I thought /dev/ad4s2b meant the 5th disk (since its ad4; ad0-ad3 being 1st
> to 4th disks), 2nd slice (s2), and second partition in that slice (b). Do
> SATA drives too come up as "ad" devices? I don't have experience with SATA
> drives, so don't know ... I know my IDE drives come up as "ad" and so
> would assume SATA will come up with a different name.

I suppose we still haven't actually answered the original
question, as to why it would abort with:
"Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s2b in /dev!"

The only thing I can think of is that sysinstall was
expecting a swap partition and wasn't given one,
although that sysinstall should be so brittle does not
agree with my general experience.

If the space to be installed in is greater than 6G
(or so) the defaults should work without a problem,
so assuming the defaults were used it should see
a /dev/ad4s2b as swap.  Of course we haven't asked
which version of FreeBSD or if there might be some
sort of buggish controller.

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